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, Volume 49, Issue 3, pp 420–442 | Cite as

Educational Justice and Occupational Mobility: The Role of Civic Commitment and of Imagination

  • Francesca Gobbo
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Abstract

In Italy, the exploration of, and debate on, problems of educational rights and justice are not subsumed under the comprehensive rubric of “Urban Education”. They are rather studied from disciplinary realms and approaches such as social education or intercultural education that aim to understand and respond to issues of pressing social, political and educational concerns relative to migration, educational inclusion of immigrants’ and minorities’ children, recognition of cultural diversities as teaching and learning resources, among others. In this article the intercultural perspective is focused on the Italian occupational minority of the fairground and circus people, whose intensely mobile way of life impacts on their children’s school attendance and learning, and on the schools’ capacity to elaborate effective educational paths also able to valorize those people’s cultural diversity. Three relevant “bottom up” projects are here presented that mean to positively answer the mismatch between the mobility of the attractionist students and the schooling curricula, the annual teaching schedule and the attendance requirements.

Keywords

Fairground and circus people Educational and social justice Intercultural education Civic engagement Imagination 
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  1. 1.Intercultural Education and Anthropology of EducationUniversity of TurinTurinItaly

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